aumentar

Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre (“increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”).

aumentar (first-person singular present aumento, first-person singular preterite aumentei, past participle aumentado)

1. to augment, increase

• aumento

• augmentar (pre-reform)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin augmentāre, from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”). Cognate of English augment.

• Hyphenation: au‧men‧tar

aumentar (first-person singular present aumento, first-person singular preterite aumentei, past participle aumentado)

1. to increase (become larger)

   Synonyms: progredir, crescer

   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 29:

     O gado augmentava, o serviço ia bem, mas o proprietario descompunha o vaqueiro.

     The cattle was increasing in number, the work was going well, but the landowner reprehended the cowhand.

2. to increase, augment (cause something to become larger)

   Synonyms: acrescentar, ampliar, amplificar

• diminuir, encurtar, subtrair, abreviar, atenuar

• aumentação, aumentado, aumentador, aumentativar, aumentativo, aumentável, aumento

Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“to increase”). Compare English augment.

• IPA^(key): /aumenˈtaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: au‧men‧tar

aumentar (first-person singular present aumento, first-person singular preterite aumenté, past participle aumentado)

1. (intransitive) to increase, grow
2. (transitive) to increase, augment
3. (transitive) to enhance
4. (reflexive) to accumulate, to increase
5. (reflexive) to augment

• “aumentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10